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Homer introduces himself as the narrator of Ody's story and is given the gift of story telling by a goddess. He begins his tail describing Ody's 12th year at away. All his men were lost because they had eaten the cattle of the sun god, and in his anger he killed everyone except Ody, leaving him alone for the rest of his journey. (picture of Helios, the sun god)

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Also the situation in Ithaca is explained. Penelope, Ody's wife, is being harassed by 100+ suitors who wanted to marry her for her wealth and kingdom. Telemachus was sent to Pylos by Athena to try to gain word of his father, but he didn't know that the suitors were planning to kill him once he returned. (picture is of Penelope)

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The story fasts forward to Ody's 19th year where he is on Calypso's island. After 7 long years of being with her, Hermes is sent down to demand that Calypso release him. She is reluctant to let him go but, Ody wishes to stay loyal to his wife and longs for him, so she liberates him. (picture of Calypso)

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Ody insists that he is loyal to his wife throughout his time with Calypso, while Calypso tries to encourage him to stay. Ody represents leadership here because he is trying to stay loyal and hang on to his mission of getting home.

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Book 9: New Coasts & Poseidon's Son - Part 1

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Book 9: New Coasts & Poseidon's Son - Part 1

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Ody sailed to the island of King Alcinous and begins to tell him his story. He boasts about how he is known by the gods and goddesses. He tells the men seated at King Alcinous's table how he was trapped at the hands of Circe and Calypso, but he longs for his wife at home. His flashback begins as he talks about losing many of his men after leaving the war in Troy after being attacked by the Cicones. Ody also tells the tale of landing on the Lotus Eaters' island. His men ate flowers on this island that compelled them to stay, though Ody went onto the island and retrieved his men before they forgot their desire to return home.

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Ody then talks about his encounter with a cyclops, Polyphemus. He took 12 men into the cyclops' cave expecting a warm welcome but got the opposite. Polyphemus eats 6 more of his men before they intoxicate him and blind him with a stake in his eye. The next morning they escape under the bellies of sheep and return to their ship. As they are sailing away, Polyphemus curses Ody and his journey home, leading to the disaster of his mission, saying that he will never return home, and if he does it will be alone and under strange sail.

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Book 10: Circe, the Grace of the Witch - Part 1

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Book 10: Circe, the Grace of the Witch - Part 1

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Ody next lands on the island of King Aeolus. The king bags all the bad winds of the sea and gives them good passage back home. Ody almost makes it to the shore of Ithaca before his crew accidently opens the bag of stormy winds and they are blown back to the King's island.  Refusing to help them anymore, Ody fleet sails the island of the Laestrygonians, who are giant cannibals. After leaving the island they were left with only 1 ship with 45 men on it. Their next adventure begins on the island of Circe.
(picture of Circe)

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Once on the island, the cre divides into two, one led by Ody who stays on the ship, and the other led by Eurylochus, who leads them to Circe's palace. At her palace the men are lured in by Circe and turned into pigs, except for Eurylochus who runs back to the ship to warn Ody. Ody defeats Circe in her palace with a magical plant given to him by Hermes. Circe turns the men back but they are left in a trance like state. After being on the island for a year, Circe agrees to let them go is went to the Island of the dead and hear a prophecy from the ghost of Tiresias.

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Upon arrival of Aeaea, Ody sacrificed a lamb and went to find the blind prophet. The first soul he sees appear is one of his men that died on Circe's island after a drunken fall. Elephenor, the ghost, asks Ody to bury him properly so his soul can rest and Ody promises to do as he's told. Ody is also surprised to see is deceased mother there too but goes to talk to Tiresias first. (Picture of the Land of the Dead)

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Tiresias' prophecy was not a pleasant one. He explained what Ody had to do to get home. He was to sail through a strait with monsters on either side, have to restrain himself and his crew, and was warned not to eat cattle on the Island of Thirinica. If the cattle are eaten then everyone would die expect for Ody, who will stuck away from home for many years before returning on ship that isn't his. Once he his home, he will encounter his home in ruins and covered in suitors which he will have to kill. After the suitors are killed Ody will have to walk inland with his oar and apologize to Poseidon and sacrifice animals as an offering. After all this, he will die a peaceful death. He spoke to his mother later and she told him how his family was mourning and she had died of a broken heart. Ody left the island traumatized after talking to more ghosts called shades.
(Picture of Tiresias, the blind prophet)

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Book 12: The Sirens; Scylla & Charybdis - Part 1

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Book 12: The Sirens; Scylla & Charybdis - Part 1

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Ody returns to Circe after his trip and tells her the prophecy he was given. She gives him advice on what to do when encountering the monsters and for what he thinks is going to be his final journey home. She tells him about two monsters: Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a lesser monster but a frightful one nonetheless with six heads that  will pluck men of Ody's boat but Charybdis is a sea monster in the form of a whirlpool that would for sure sink Ody's ship. Because of this, Ody comes the decision of sacrificing 6 men to Scylla in order for everyone else to sail around Charybdis. Finally, Circe warns Ody about not eating the cattle of the Island of Helios or else great misfortune would fall upon Ody and his crew.
(picture of Scylla and Charydbis)

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The first monsters Ody passes on his sail home are sirens. The crew's ears are stuffed with beeswax and they are unable to hear their chants. Ody is tied to the ship and is only untied once they are far from the sirens. Ody does not warn his crew of Scylla because he wants them to not lose hope. As they approach a narrow strait with the monster on both sides, Scylla snatches 6 men. Ody describes this as the most horrific things he sees on his journey, his men dangling and wailing his name before death. Though the rest of the crew rows away quickly and Charybdis is avoided. Ody tells his men no but he loses his battle as the crew begs to land on the next island they see: Helio's Island. The men disobey Ody and eat the cattle of the sun god. As a punishment, Zeus  sends a lightning bolt down on Ody's men with and destroy his ship. Ody is the only one left, and his prophecy has come true.
(Picture of the sirens attacking Ody's ship)

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After being left alone on his journey, Ody drifts the island of Calypso and stays there for 7 years. This is the end of the story Ody tells King Alcinous.